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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






3. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






4. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






5. A four line stanza in a poem.






6. A poem that tells a story.






7. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






8. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






9. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






10. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






11. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






12. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






13. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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14. A three-line stanza.






15. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






16. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






17. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






18. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






19. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






20. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






21. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






22. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






23. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






24. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






25. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






26. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






27. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






28. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






29. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






30. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






31. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






32. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






33. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






34. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






35. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






36. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






37. The person who 'tells' the story.






38. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






39. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






40. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






41. A character struggles against some outside force.






42. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






43. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






44. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






45. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






46. Broken down acts.






47. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






48. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






49. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






50. A strong pause within a line.







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